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The Act: S.G. WOLFGANG

The Release: ‘THE SHADOWS ARE LENGTHENING’

The Format: DIGITAL ALBUM

The Release Date: OCTOBER 5TH 2018

The Label: fierce panda

The Tracklisting: 1 ‘Row The Boat’; 2 ‘Mary’s Grave’; 3 ‘Souls Out’; 4 ‘Last Man Standing’; 5 ‘Curtains’; 6 ‘Wishing Well’; 7 ‘Heading For The Shore’; 8 ‘Father I Have Sinned’; 9 ‘Thunder’; 10 ‘Fires Will Burn’’; 11 ‘The Shadows Are Lengthening

The Truth: S.G. WOLFGANG consist of four fiercely keen characters from Milton Keynes with names such as Sean Grant (guitar / vocals), Steve Fiske (guitar / vocals), Phil Andreas (keyboards) and Matt Banham (drums). ‘The Shadows Are Lengthening’ is their debut album and is due out in the autumn dark of October 5th.

‘Souls Out’ was the lead-off track in the summertime, and a tighter, tauter three minutes 13 seconds of tetchy alt.rock you will struggle to encounter this season. “We wanted this to be our first single back and a magic mirror to what the album may hold,” says singer Sean, “’Souls Out’ is an aggressive and dynamic little number which can lead you to what to expect from the rest of the record…”

You can see the gnarly video for ‘Souls Out’ over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrNHZ64Gj1Q and then go see the ‘gang in the flesh at these shows here:

‘THE SHADOWS ARE LENGTHENING’ TOURDATES

SEPTEMBER 22ND BEDFORD Esquires (w/ Indoor Pets)
OCTOBER 11TH KINGSTON Fighting Cocks
OCTOBER 12TH LEICESTER Duffy’s Bar
OCTOBER 17TH ST ALBANS The Horn (w/ The Sideliners)
OCTOBER 18TH LONDON MANOR HOUSE The Finsbury
(Club Fandango Blogtober show w/ Wild Cat Strike)

Last time we heard from S.G. WOLFGANG they were called Sean Grant & The Wolfgang, and they were shivering various timbers in 2016 with the ‘7 Deadly 7’ EP, four tracks of clankingly enthusiastic neo-gothic beardyman angst which saw the outfit pithily dubbed “Frank Turner & The Bad Seeds”.

Over the past few months the moderately furious foursome have been locked away in Seamus Wong Studios in Leicester with Paul Warriner creating a debut album dotted with cranky power chords and creaking hyper-ballads, nodding along the way at the likes of QOTSA, Rocket From The Crypt and Afghan Whigs. Mixed by Paul Gregory of Lanterns On The Lake, if the title ‘The Shadows Are Lengthening’ sounds ominous then Sean Grant isn’t about to lighten the load.

“During the writing of the album I was in a very dark place personally, dealing with a lot of inner conflicts within my own life, battling with a depression that I’d struggled with and hidden my whole life... even from myself,” he says, carefully.

“The whole album is a box of inner demons, a diary of my internal voices. ‘Souls Out’ in particular is when everything has been stripped back to the bone, but even further than that, to your soul. You’re standing naked, but more than naked there is no body, there is just your consciousness left floating like a tiny cosmos with no material things to cling on to anymore. ‘Souls Out’ is the end of the rope, the end of the line when you’ve exhausted all other avenues. “Cut your heart from your sleeve”…you’re just there with your Soul Out exposed for everyone to see."

Never a Dulli moment indeed.

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